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The ABC’s of Antisemitism
19th C. image of The Wandering Jew [For an index to many of my blogs on antisemitism, see http://clarespark.com/2012/09/29/index-to-blogs-on-antisemitism/.] Antisemitism entails much more than a direct...
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Eric Foner’s Christianized Lincoln
Columbia U. Professor Eric Foner Eric Foner’s recent history book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery ((N.Y.: Norton, 2010) has received the coveted Bancroft Prize. In this blog, I...
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“Who ain’t a slave?”
Rockwell Kent drawing, 1927 The deeper meaning of Ishmael’s query to the reader, “Who ain’t a slave? Tell me that,” was raised in my prior blog. I took this up in my book Hunting Captain Ahab:...
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Is Ahab, Ahab? The Free Will Debate
Royal Doulton Ahab Jug I take it for granted that readers know that Catholics, evangelical Protestants, and some Jews believe in free will, while atheists, Freudians, other Jews, and the Left lean...
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